400 Poem Challenge (completed December 26, 10:15am)

tales

when i was younger

i would often make up tales

to mask the truth

cover it in a veil

i wasn't proud of myself

it just helped me survive

in a world often crazy

where love had withered and died

now that i am older

and the memory's beginning to fade

i find that the truth

is a little harder to evade

because to be a good liar

the stories you must remember well

and with a mind thats fading

the truth is easier to tell